“The takeaway for GCs [general counsels] is the increasing focus by the SEC on injunctive – and perhaps even market-changing – relief such as extracting from defendants admissions of culpability, retractions of prior statements, and agreements to exit key markets,” according to attorney Beth Boland.

Merri Jo Gillette spent more than 27 years at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) where she worked in a variety of capacities, including more than a decade serving as the director of the SEC’s Chicago office.